Complexity Constrained Robust Video Transmission for Hand-Held Devices

Robust video conversational applications for hand-held devices come with numerous challenges, e.g. real-time processing, complexity constrained devices and small end-to-end delays, etc. Transmission losses of compressed video data result in spatio-temporal error propagation in the decoded video sequence. To ensure some QoS, the video codec has to be well tuned to combat the degradation resulting from losses. Several feedback based error mitigation technique are assessed in this work. The proposed error robustness technique based on reference picture selection (RPS) and error tracking enhances the overall performance of the target system by more than 4 dB for moderate radio link control (RLC) PDU loss rates of 1.5%. This enhancement is achieved without any additional computational complexity.